• Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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    Free speech; but only in the context of “You are free to agree with my speech”

    Why does this clown get so much coverage? There’s even sad fanboys who reference him with their username. Smh.

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      He gets this much coverage because for better or worse, he now owns the Internet’s equivalent of the Town Square.

      Every dumb-ass decision, stupid-ass contradiction, and dead-ass brain-fart are exponentially amplified as a result.

      Every one of his fanboys are the true definition of SIMPs; suckers idolising mediocre personalities.

      Maybe once we start calling a spade a spade, will those lemmings perhaps rethink their positions? Or will they continue to barrel head-first off the cliffs of self-respect?

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        Maybe once we start calling a spade a spade, will those lemmings perhaps rethink their positions? Or will they continue to barrel head-first off the cliffs of self-respect?

        Once we start, my dude, that’s been going strong since 2018 at the latest. At this point any Elon SIMPs left are following him blindly over the cliffs.

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      It may sound odd but this could actually be a sea change moment for a lot of people. Having been stuck around far right coworkers enough a lot of them have hung their hats on the whole “free speech” lynchpin. That’s the thing they condemn leftist spaces for doing, that’s the hill thwy will die on. Their sycophantic love of Musk is bound up in the idea that he’s some kind of champion of free speech. This likely is the rude shock some of them might need to realize that was never true.

      Is it going to get them to revisit their whole worldview? Probably not. But it’s a crack in the facade.

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            Shareholders need profit. Shareholders will chase the biggest profit. They don’t care what you are saying - they only care that their bank balance is rising… until it’s too late.

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    Realize the new tactic, trump admin will have the day of secondary goons fighting in public over multiple concepts, they’ll wait to see where public sentiment falls, and then trump will jump on the bandwagon and “punish” the face of the “losing” side.

    Realize that old orange bag of loose shit is silent through this “controversy”. And, in the meantime, heritage foundation directed gop will use every second of the distraction to quietly pass bad law.

    Examples:

    • they just quietly defunded the department that tracks and reports on foreign propaganda efforts after musk just attacked it publicly link

    • And they just gutted $20b from the IRS that could be used to audit millionaires and billionaires - the IRS famously brings in more money for every dollar funded into the service link

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    This is all public theater to distract from his actual actions with the government—and the tech industry, too.

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    Oh boy, I think I may be a bad person. Because I so want to see everything go wrong for this guy. And I mean EVERYTHING!
    Lose his money, lose his home, get sick preferably something very painful, not be able to get healthcare, lose his family and friends.
    But all he has lost is his mind, and he is completely oblivious to that.

    But at least as the narcissist he is, I can at least find some comfort in the fact that his emotional life is probably pretty fucked up, and he will always feel sorry for himself for whatever ridiculous reason.

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    What an absolute fucking clown. I hope both democrats and republicans go to war against his companies.

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    Fascist supporters when other fascists they don’t agree with do what fascists do and marginalize them to minimize their influence:

    Surprisedpikachuface.jpeg.

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    So if the left runs to Bluesky and the right runs back to Truth social, poor old Elon will have a pretty expensive ghost town. I feel for him… Poor guy

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    A lot of companies looking to fill tech positions will not sponsor a foreign employee, so not sure what the “taking our jobs” thing is about.